The Taiwanese tech company Foxconn yesterday Thursday ended the lockdown at the world's largest iPhone manufacturing plant - which has been operating on a "closed circuit" for 56 days after a general relaxation of health measures to deal with the covid-19 in China.
"Given (...) the lifting of the epidemiological control measures in China, the company requires all its employees to show a negative PCR test of less than 48 hours before they can return to work," the company said in a statement posted on the official WeChat account of "iPhone city," Foxconn's main factory in China, located in Zhengzhou city in Henan province.
The company asked its employees who had left the "closed circuit" "bubble" to return to work "as soon as possible".
Foxconn has thus ended the lockdown at its factory after 56 days, during which workers could only move from their dormitories to their workplace on certain buses.
About 200 people work at this factory.000 people and most of them live on site in dormitories.
Since October, when there was a rise in cases of covid-19, the factory has been in lockdown.
At the end of November, hundreds of workers had demonstrated, expressing their anger at their living conditions in this closed-circuit regime.[/I] Other workers fled the factory, causing a shortage of workers' water.
[BR][BR]On Wednesday, China's health authorities announced a general relaxation of measures to deal with covid-19 after angry protests erupted in several cities across the country in the hope of recovering the world's second-largest economy that was suffocating under a "zero covid" policy.
The problems caused by the lockdown at Foxconn's factory had a severe impact on the supply chain, and on the company itself.
In November, Foxconn's turnover fell by 11.4% year-on-year. The company had previously announced that it had revised its fourth quarter guidance downward. Some analysts had estimated a drop in its sales of up to 20%.
Source: APB
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